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unusual facts about Goupil & Cie


Ernest Gambart

He soon became known to the well-established Goupil print publishers, for whom he moved to England in 1840 to establish a branch in London.


Boveri

Walter Boveri (1865-1924), Swiss industrialist, co-founder of the company Brown, Boveri & Cie, brother of Theodor Boveri

Conn-Selmer

Establishing Henri Selmer & Cie. in 1885, Henri began making clarinet reeds and expanded into mouthpieces.

DRG Class ET 85

After this conversion an order for 32 new vehicles of this type was delivered to Fuchs and BBC to be built from 1927 to 1933.

John Cockerill

John Cockerill & Cie., or the John Cockerill company, founded by John Cockerill, later known as Société pour l'Exploitation des Etablissements John Cockerill (1842), Societe Anonyme Cockerill-Ougree (1955), later became part of Cockerill-Sambre

Louis-Raphaël Bischoffsheim

He married Amalie Goldschmidt (1804–1887), daughter of Hayum-Salomon Goldschmidt, and founded Bischoffsheim, Goldschmidt & Cie in Antwerp.

Marina Bay Financial Centre

Tower 2 is leased to multi-national institutions such as American Express, BHP Billiton, Bank Pictet, Barclays, Eastspring Investments, ICAP, The Macquarie Group, Murex, Nomura Securities, Tafo Oil and Servcorp.

Queen Elizabeth Power Station

Boilers were supplied by FW, Babcock and Wilcox, and Innovative Steam Technologies; while the turbines were supplied by Brown, Boveri & Cie, English Electric and Hitachi Canadian Industries.

Rapp Motorenwerke

The aeroengines produced by Rapp were easily distinguished from the other aeroengines (Mercedes, Benz, Basse, Selve, etc.

Varda Viaduct

Financed by the German Deutsche Bank, the construction of the viaduct was commissioned to Philipp Holzmann & Cie, a renowned German construction company with experience in the field of major infrastructure works.

Zeppelin-Staaken R.VI

R.VI serial number R.30/16 was the earliest known supercharged aircraft to fly, with a fifth engine - a Mercedes D.II - installed in the central fuselage, driving a Brown-Boveri four-stage supercharger at some 6,000 rpm.


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